Xenophon\'s Egyptians

[Matthew Amt]

Well, I'm not certain what they *did* use, but I think we can rest assured that they were NOT still using equipment from the Bronze Age! The well-known round-topped or pointy-topped shields, "epsilon" axes, and khopesh swords were all long gone by that time. It's more likely that they looked much more Hellenistic by Xenophon's time. His reference to large shields brings the Fayum shield to mind--Romans were not the only people using large oval shields back then! The Greeks referred to that as a theureos, I believe.

Probably even the clothing had changed, to some extent. But I don't know for certain!

Khairete,

Matthew